A fresh, modern take on wedding design perfect for today’s
bride. Paige Appel and Kelly Harris started designing weddings in 2009,
and their work immediately resonated with young brides and grooms:
weddings in fields, art galleries, refurbished warehouses, vineyards,
hip hotels, or farmhouses. Weddings that featured Mimolette and Mexican
beer; fireside chats; succulents and wildflowers; funny jokes;
farm-to-table dinners; recycling; offbeat photography; desert heat or
mountain snow; salty cookies; pots of paint and confetti cannons.
People, Real Simple, Daily Candy, and Design Sponge are just a few of
the publications that responded to their addictive mix of old and new,
vintage and modern. In this, their first book, Appel and Harris share
ideas from the weddings they have designed, such as celebrations at a
Palos Verdes farm (Red Hot Juleps, wildflowers galore, a mouthwatering
"Sweets Stable") and The Ace Hotel in Palm Springs (a bourbon-soaked
retro cocktail hour, colossal balloons, and a marching band), all
photographed here in detail. With their trademark wit, they walk the
reader through planning their event, from vision statement and
storyboard to color palette, stationery, signs and logos, centerpieces
and bouquets, furnishings, linens, china and silver, aisle décor,
menus, and more, providing hundreds of inspirational ideas in the
process.